emancipation
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The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Maybe it’s the emancipation of women in the last 50 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
A pragmatic realist, he stopped short of calling for immediate emancipation, which he knew was unacceptable to most American voters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, Northern states began gradual emancipation, making slavery a sectional institution dividing North from South.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
All the plans for gradual emancipation assumed that slavery was a moral and economic problem that demanded a political solution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing emancipation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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American History I
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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